The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-04-22
The Farm.
How Farmers Can Control the Prloe
Of the Products Of their Labor.

Of the Products Of their Labor.
Wheat is the staff of life. The price
of wheat regulates, in great measure,
the price OF all other products of the
farm. That which shelters, warns,
feeds and clothes man is the wealth of
country. The farmers ought to reg.
ulate the price of their goods There
would be as much wheat and corn con.
sumed at one dollar per bushel for
wheat and fifty cents per bushel for
corn as there is at lower prices.
The present low prices of grain are
against the interest of the wage worker
and all productive labor; the farmer
works harder and makes less money
according to the capital invested than
any other business man, and pays Sc of
the taxes and only owns one. half of the
wealth Of .he country.
The problem to be solved is, how is
the farmer to regulate the price
Of his graiu2 By controlling it-farm.
ers to build Union Elevators all over
the United States on ra lroads and
canal lines; hold the surplus wheat at
home and feed your corn on the farm.
If you feed $50 bushels of corn to five
steers and make 35 cents per bushel on
what you feed, which will be $3.50;
when the five fat cattle are driven of of
the farm you take from the farm six (6)
bushels of corn, the balance of the $50
bushels is in the tarn yard. Therefore,
you get $3.50 for six bushels of corn,
which is 1915 per bushel for your corn
that is taken from the farm. Appoint
storekeeper to attend to the Elevator,
and require him to give bond that he
will neither buy nor sell wheat, and
keep his books in bushels and pounds;
farmers receipts from the Elevators to
be in bushels and so arranged that he
can transfer part Or all of them, and
also, he can use them as collateral when
he wishes to borrow money from the
bank, he can sell his wheat at such
times as he thinks best; any person who
has money to buy carload of wheat
can become wheat buyer and break up
all combinations on grain that has a
tendency to reduce the price furnish
wheat to the consumers as they want TO
buy and to the speculators when they
are willing to pay the price it costs to
raise it.
The consumption Of wheat n-the
United States is so per cent. of the pro
duction, the price of the whole crop is
reduced 10 sell the 20 per cent, surplus.
Now keep the surplus out of the mar
ket and every perso" can see chat wheat
will bring at all times one dollar or more
per bushel. Throw the surplus on the
market you get the same amount of
money, and give away 20 per cent of
your crop. If merchant buys 100 lbs.
of sugar and he has custom for 80 lbs.
at 10 CTS, in order to sell the surplus
70 lbs. he sells the whole at 8 cts. per
lb., the business community would call
him a fool
Seven to eight millions of people are
employed in agricultural pursuits; one
half of the industry ofthe country
under the present system of dealing,
their labor is controlled by the
European serfs. 1 have understood that
the European market has to have so
much of our surplus wheat to mix with
their wheat to make good bread; then
make them pay for it, and elevate the
of our country.
Books will be opened in the County
Clerks Office on the 1st day of Jan.
uary, 1887, to take stocks in the Union
Elevator, to be built in Hagerstown,
Washington County, Md, at $40 per
share. This movement is endors I'd by
many farmers,
The above was sent to IS for publ
cation several weeks ago, but has been
overlooked until the present time. The
appeal is worthy the attention of farmers
who should inquire into the movement.
and if proven to be feasible give it
their countenauce and support